By Stephen Toope In the global knowledge economy, a country’s greatest strategic advantage is its capacity to discover and innovate. The federal government acknowledged this clearly in Thursday’s budget, with its commitment to make smart investments in research and innovation. Maintaining such priorities at a time of difficult fiscal decisions affirms the Prime Minister Stephen […]

The Canadian government remains convinced that more efficient use of targeted investments will ensure that the next great Canadian idea is not shipped south to be marketed and manufactured in California

Francesca Gino’s new study, which links creativity to dishonesty, opens with a quote from 18th-century French philosopher and art critic Denis Diderot: “Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other”

The Jenkins report on R&D policies in Canada, which was released on Monday, starts with a bureaucratic fantasy. In 1874, two Canadians, Henry Woodward, a medical student, and Mathew Evans, a hotelkeeper, were in the race to build a commercial light bulb, but they couldn’t find backing. When Woodward applied for a U.S. patent, Thomas […]